Decisions about ICON’s governance and program priorities are made with balanced inputs from four stakeholder sectors active within the organization:

Government

Academia

Industry

Non-governmental organizations

Strategic PlanThe goals, strategies, actions and responsibilities for each of the objectives given below are defined in the ICON Strategic Plan.

Create a multi-stakeholder, international and neutral forum for exploring health and environmental risk issues.

Establish and maintain a globally recognized, credible knowledge base (contextual summaries of research publications, access to experts, roadmap for future research needs and capabilities) of nanotechnology EHS peer reviewed information.

Facilitate and develop activities producing or using information in support of nanotechnology health and environmental risk assessment and management

Broadly communicate the results of ICON’s efforts and translate complex scientific concepts into material that can be understood by a broad cross section of stakeholders.

The International Council on Nanotechnology (ICON) is a credible, international, and multi-stakeholder organization for catalyzing global activities that lead to sound and responsible risk assessment, management, and communications. ICON works in an open and transparent manner and reaches decisions by consensus. It is a technically-driven organization and does not engage in advocacy or commercial activities.